house and senate tax writing committees. they said this irs scandal may actually help their effort because people could unite around their need to restore trust in the tax code. people often take a moment of controversy and make a straight line prediction that everything is going to go to a dead stop. doesn't always work out that way. >> and then there's a silver lining potentially. jackie, what's the mood of the white house right now? do you get a sense it's one of frustration or resignation or something more positive, that they're going to make something out of this? >> i think you saw a little bit of the frustration with some of dan pfeiffer's interviews today. they're still on defense. they haven't moved to the offensive on this issue yet and they're still trying to move past it. we'll see if they can do it next week. but the thing about this irs scandal is that, you know, last week it was just a small branch in cincinnati that was doing this, and now it in washington, we've got more testimonies coming on the hill tuesda